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Electronic applianceElectronic appliance description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20090162027, Electronic appliance. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic appliance capable of receiving and displaying a television broadcast and allowing an audience to view it and more particularly to an electronic appliance capable of recording by reservation the television broadcast received. 2. Description of the Related Art Recently, with the increasing promotion of having multiple functions of electronic appliances such as mobile phones, a television displaying function of receiving and displaying images broadcasted by terrestrial digital broadcasting or the like to allow the audience to view it has come to be incorporated in mobile phones. In addition, there have been developed mobile phones having a function of recording a program in a main body memory or an external memory and a reservation recording function which is activated by a timer to automatically start recording of a program. For example, in Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2007-129659, there is described a program reservation system designed to determine whether reservation is possible during setting of the reservation, thereby to realize appropriate reservation setting. This program reservation system is of the type that determines whether reservation can be accepted on the basis of a memory amount remaining in its memory unit, a time period required to record a program that has been reserved for recordings and the like and the reservation of this program is set in the case that the reservation is determined to be possible. A conventional mobile phone is constructed such that in the case that reservation recording of a TV program which is currently being broadcasted or which is about to be broadcasted soon is manually set, the reservation is not allowed unless a time at which the recording is started comes after (in the future) the current time to some extent. Therefore, a problem occurs in that the reservation recording cannot be started promptly and hence scenes to be recorded are not recorded. In addition, the reservation of the recording cannot be accomplished unless both the start time and end time of recording are set, so that in the case that much time is taken to set the subscription, a problem occurs in that scenes to be recorded which are being broadcasted during the setting are not recorded. On the other hand, it is also possible to adopt a method in which a user directly starts the recording by depressing one operation key for starting the recording and stops the recording by depressing another operation key for stopping the recording, instead of performing the reservation recording. However, in this case, the recording cannot be stopped unless the operation key for stopping the recording is depressed, which makes it necessary for the user to depress the operation key for stopping the recording at the end time of recording. The present invention has been conceived in view of the above mentioned problems intrinsic to the prior art. Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide an electronic appliance making it possible to promptly start recording by a simple operation in the case that a TV program which is currently being broadcasted or is about to be broadcasted soon is to be recorded by reservation. In order to solve the above mentioned problems, according to the present invention, there is provided an electronic appliance for receiving and recording broadcasted images, constituted by: an input accepting unit configured to accept input of recording reservation information at least including a start time of recording and a channel corresponding to the images to be recorded; an input determining unit configured to determine, when input of the start time has been accepted by the input accepting unit, whether input of the channel is being accepted by the input accepting unit; a time determining unit configured to determine, in the case that it has been determined by the input determining unit that the input of the channel is being accepted, whether the start time accepted by the input accepting unit is before the current time; and a recording starting unit configured to start, in the case that it has been determined by the time determining unit that the start time is before the current time, a recording process in the background on the basis of the channel accepted by the input accepting unit. Owing to the electronic appliance according to the present invention, in the case that the TV program which is currently being broadcasted or is about to be broadcasted soon is to be recorded by reservation, it becomes possible to promptly start the recording by a simple operation of starting the recording in the background in advance at the moment that minimum requisite information is obtained for starting the reservation recording, even before reservation setting is completed. Continue reading about Electronic appliance... Full patent description for Electronic appliance Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Electronic appliance patent application. 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